Liverpool: Back to the Roots of Harm Reduction

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

20 years ago service providers in Liverpool started to experience with innovative approaches to drug problems. They distributed sterile needles for drug users to protect them from HIV, and provided heroin users with a substitute drug called methadone to prevent crime and overdoses. Later this approach was named harm reduction. 20 years later at the International Harm reduction conference, we asked the pioneers of Liverpool about the beginnings.For more information visit: www.drogriporter.hu/en/liverpoolThanks to KingAmongKings for the tip